Could some more guidance be provided around how to use the explicit typing
with nested JWTs?

I'd imagine that the "typ" header should be in the header of the JWT that
is integrity protected by the issuer?

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Phil Hunt (IDM) <phil.h...@oracle.com>
wrote:

> +1
>
> Thanks Mike.
>
> Phil
>
> On Jul 4, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Mike Jones <michael.jo...@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> The JWT BCP draft has been updated to describe the use of explicit typing
> of JWTs as one of the ways to prevent confusion among different kinds of
> JWTs.  This is accomplished by including an explicit type for the JWT in
> the “typ” header parameter.  For instance, the Security Event Token (SET)
> specification <http://self-issued.info/?p=1709> now uses the “
> application/secevent+jwt” content type to explicitly type SETs.
>
>
>
> The specification is available at:
>
>    - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sheffer-oauth-jwt-bcp-01
>
>
>
> An HTML-formatted version is also available at:
>
>    - http://self-issued.info/docs/draft-sheffer-oauth-jwt-bcp-01.html
>
>
>
>                                                        -- Mike
>
>
>
> P.S.  This notice was also posted at http://self-issued.info/?p=1714 and
> as @selfissued <https://twitter.com/selfissued>.
>
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